Aug 7, 2017, Lewes, DE, Cape Gazette: Sussex Consortium gets $5.7 million from bond bill http://www.capegazette.com/article/sussex-consortium-gets-57-million-bond-bill/139016 This year's legislative session ended with a bond bill bonus for Sussex Consortium. Cape Henlopen School District got the news they had been waiting to hear when $5.7 million was earmarked for construction costs for the new facility. “We got great news from the state. Our local legislators really went to bat for us,” said Brian Bassett, director of facility operations and construction. In 2016, the state agreed to pay 100 percent of the costs of a new Sussex Consortium facility – about $19 million for a new building and another $1.8 million for land. The district and state have settled on a site that covers 25 acres at 17344 Sweetbriar Road. … There are about 270 students enrolled in the consortium, which runs the county's autism program and educates special needs students. Six classrooms have been added to both Mariner and Beacon middle schools to allow consortium students to assimilate in a traditional classroom with their peers. Cape High has five classrooms for consortium use while Milton and Shields elementaries each have four. Students who cannot handle the traditional school setting are educated at the main Sussex Consortium campus, which operates out of the Lewes School on Savannah Road.
Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.